This scenario describes the recording and maintenance of dangerous-goods specific data for a material master where the data is required to carry out dangerous goods checks in delivery and shipment processing and generate dangerous goods papers in shipping.

The characteristics of master data management for dangerous goods without the substance database are:

The dangerous goods legal data are maintained directly in the dangerous goods master.

The following R/3 components are integrated with master data management for dangerous goods without the substance database:

2. Dangerous Goods

• When you create a dangerous goods master, as well as entering a material, you must also enter the dangerous goods regulation that is the deciding parameter for carrying out dangerous goods checks and generating dangerous goods papers. You maintain dangerous goods legal data directly in the dangerous goods master.

• From the source system, you can trigger the distribution of dangerous goods data in other clients or R/3 Systems.

In delivery and shipment processing, you can use data to carry out dangerous goods checks to identify deliveries and shipments for dangerous-goods relevant materials, whilst taking the appropriate regulations into account. You can enhance the check methods regardless of the release you are using in order to adapt the process flow of checks and system reactions to suit your requirements. If a delivery contains dangerous goods, the corresponding EDIs are provided with the necessary dangerous goods data.